Django Reinhardt: Deep Cuts

Django Reinhardt: Deep Cuts

This guitarist never limited himself to the styles of his Parisian homeland, as heard in the stomping chordal work in his performance of James P. Johnson's stride classic “Charleston.” But few fans might have been prepared for the electric-guitar sounds of postwar tracks like “Topsy,” in which Reinhardt discovered cool new tones for his liquid, legato lines.

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